![]() ![]() It helps that the coffee is reliably good and, being an old-fashioned Italian espresso man myself, it very much hits the spot. At night it becomes more of a bar than a café, although the menus stay the same throughout the day, serving coffee, drinks, pastries and ice-cream.Īs a day-time café, it trades on my sense of nostalgia as much as anything else waitress service, a menu that is delightfully concise and to the point, and all with certain air of opulence. Spread over three floors, with four seating areas, I’ve only ever visited during the day, when just the ground floor café is open. It’s an old-fashioned Italian Café, with heritage dating back to 1929. ![]() Continue reading.Ĭaffé Vittoria is something of Boston institution, or certainly a North End institution (the North End being the Italian part of town). Quiet but busy, with friendly but not intrusive staff and a bright and warm interior to draw you in, the Perk is the sort of place you could spend an entire afternoon and leave wandering where the time had gone. Whatever the inspiration, the end result is a wonderful place, the lovely atmosphere making it close to the perfect place to drink coffee. In conversation with the owner I learned that the inspiration had been a trip to London 15 years ago, which led to a desire to create something with a different look-and-feel than the run-of-the-mill American coffee shop. It has a small but tasty range of cakes and cookies, a decent breakfast menu of omelettes, bagels and egg sandwiches and an extensive range of reasonably-priced sandwiches for lunch. It offers a typical American-style coffee shop menu, with the usual espresso-based drinks, the obligatory flasks of filter coffee and a sideline in iced coffee. The Berkley Perk Café is a well-established and well-loved coffee shop in Boston’s South End, having been around for 15 years. Header image: looking east from the top of the Prudential Building towards downtown Boston, with the John Hancock Tower in the foreground. In particular, I’ve only just started scratching the surface of the coffee scene across the Charles River in Cambridge and beyond.įor a different take on things, try this Coffee Guide to Boston by my friend Bex of Double Skinny Macchiato or this guide by Sprudge. A little further to the west is the Museum of Fine Art, one of my favourite museums/galleries.Īs with all these Coffee Spot Guides, my Guide to Boston is not comprehensive, with new places opening all the time. With its rows of red-brick townhouses, this is the city of Boston on much more human scale and an ideal area to stroll around. I tend to stay in the Back Bay/South End area, which explains the concentration of Coffee Spots in that area. These days it’s a pleasure to go down there. Since then, a project known as the “Big Dig” has put I93 into a tunnel, completely regenerating the whole area and reconnecting the city to the waterfront. When I first visited Boston in the late 1990s, an elevated highway, I93, cut through the middle of downtown, separating the waterfront from the rest of the city. It’s also one of the oldest US cities, with its historical core around Boston Common and the waterfront of the North End. It’s been described as the most European of US cities, with its non-grid pattern streets in the downtown area. However, speciality coffee in Boston has been slow to take off and it’s only recently that a wave of new coffee shops have opened, particularly in the downtown area.īoston is one of my favourite US cities to visit. Boston was actually the first US city that I visited with my Coffee Spot hat on back in 2013. ![]() Welcome to this, the third of my Coffee Spot Guides to USA cities. The Coffee Spot Guide to Boston and Cambridge ![]()
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